This is what a nice healthy clutch of Ball Python eggs should look like. This was a big 11-egg clutch. I had quite a few nice clutch this year with the average being around 9 eggs per clutch. The first clutch is due to hatch July 19th (day 52). This clutch is a Spider x Normal (Granite-ish) female. I believe it could be the clutch pictured, but since I did not pay much attention to tag the pictures, I don't know for sure... By candling, I have found at least a few Spiders in the clutch, but it almost seems like we may be low on Spiders despite the nice large clutch. We'll see in a couple of days :)
We had issues with a female laying eggs this year... this was our first time to have an egg-bound female. This happens when for some reason or another (there are multiple possible reasons), a female cannot pass or move out her eggs. In the end, we were prepared to intervene and try to help her out. However, we gave her a few days and she managed to move everything out. The problem with this particular female was that she had a slug and also a deformed, but viable, egg. The female is in good shape and ate a medium rat just tonight.
Ball Pythons make wonderful pets. We enjoy their great disposition, their perfect size (not too big, not too small) and their endless combination of color and patterns is a plus as well. This picture is of my 3-year old daughter hanging out with Floyd. He's the male of the first pair of ball pythons that we acquired back in 1999 (10 years ago). He is definitely the tamest Ball Python I have ever seen. A great looking snake, that is tame and a perfect size!
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This is what a nice healthy clutch of Ball Python eggs should look like. This was a big 11-egg clutch. I had quite a few nice clutch this year with the average being around 9 eggs per clutch. The first clutch is due to hatch July 19th (day 52). This clutch is a Spider x Normal (Granite-ish) female. I believe it could be the clutch pictured, but since I did not pay much attention to tag the pictures, I don't know for sure... By candling, I have found at least a few Spiders in the clutch, but it almost seems like we may be low on Spiders despite the nice large clutch. We'll see in a couple of days :)
We had issues with a female laying eggs this year... this was our first time to have an egg-bound female. This happens when for some reason or another (there are multiple possible reasons), a female cannot pass or move out her eggs. In the end, we were prepared to intervene and try to help her out. However, we gave her a few days and she managed to move everything out. The problem with this particular female was that she had a slug and also a deformed, but viable, egg. The female is in good shape and ate a medium rat just tonight.
Ball Pythons make wonderful pets. We enjoy their great disposition, their perfect size (not too big, not too small) and their endless combination of color and patterns is a plus as well. This picture is of my 3-year old daughter hanging out with Floyd. He's the male of the first pair of ball pythons that we acquired back in 1999 (10 years ago). He is definitely the tamest Ball Python I have ever seen. A great looking snake, that is tame and a perfect size!
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